Family Medicine

In a recent presentation to preventive medicine residents at Johns Hopkins, I reflected on the painful circumstances that led to my resignation from t...

Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital? I've spent the past week as the attending physician on my reside...

Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed...

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. But if there was ever a more fertile environment for this age-ol...

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of...

"Sludge audits" identify obstacles to completing colorectal cancer screening In a traditional health care setting, many administrative burdens and bar...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health...

** For the past 30 years, a little-known U.S. health agency has supported and produced volumes of groundbreaking research on how to make health care s...

Measles, vaccine hesitancy, and the ACIP As of March 27, 2025, 19 states had confirmed a total of 483 measles infections, with 444 cases associated wi...

What's in a name? The following is a guest post from my sister-in-law, Dr. Therese Duane, a trauma surgeon who is on a medical mission in Uganda. You...